Machine for wrapping oranges and other spherical objects.



No. 867,176. I. PATEN'IED SEPT. 24, 1907. e. T. WARWICK.

MACHINE FOR WRAPPING ORANGES AND OTHER SPHERIGAL OBJEGTS.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 24. I906.

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igofizza y 7 0 9 1 A 2 T P E S D E T N E T A P MAGHIN B FOR WRAP-PING ORANGBS AND OTHER SPHERIOAL OBJECTS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24,1906.

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PATENTED SEPT.'2{1, 1907. e. T. WARWICK. MACHINE FOR WRAPPING ORANGES AND OTHER SPHERIGAL 0mm.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.24. 1906.

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No. 867,176. PATENTED SEPT. 24, 1907.

v v G. T. WARWICK. MACHINE FOR WRAPPING ORANGES AND OTHER SPHERIGAL OBJECTS.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV.24, 1906.

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No. 867,176. PATEN-IED SEPT. 24, 1907.

G. T. WARWICK.

MACHINE FOB. WRAPPING ORANGES AND OTHER SPHERIGAL OBJECTS.

APPLIOATIONNIILED NOV. 24. 1906.

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mately'spherical objectsyand more particularly relatesl to improvementsin 'a machine comprising, 'in

' the orange wrapping mechanism. 1

I performance ofits' required operations,.:and eflicient device of any holder or carrier-for the oranges, it being discernible from the drawings, accompanying, and the orange wrapping devices in such a manner that it and its wrapper partake of rotary movements caused by close-and securejcondition, and then causing, or perthe discharge of the wrapped orange, and

having the capabilities above indicated which hy're'ason of the novelformations and combinations of parts thereof all substantially as-hercinafter described and UNI? OFFICE I enough *1. WARWICK, or .SPRINGFIELD,MASSACHUSETTS.

FQR wnsrrm'e onANGEsAnD om rmmcu. owners! To all who'm'itmay concern: p v i Be it known that I, GaononT. W RWICK, a citizen of the United 'Statesof America, and a resident of Springfield, in the-county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Machinesfor Wrapping Orangesand other spherical Objects, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for 'wrapping oranges or other perfectly or approxicor'nbination, means -for feeding forwardly portions of a paper supply sheet or' strip to constitute wrappers, means for conveying oranges onto the wrapper, a mech- -anism'for wrapping the sheet about the orange, twist-" ingthe free portions 0f the wrapper to a sufliciently means causing the orange with the wrapper suitably relative thereto tobe moved'from their "position of initial assemblage to a position to .be subjected to .The object of this invention is to produce thereof is of unusual simplicity, capable of the rapid for the satisfactory wrapping of the'spheric'al articles.

A peculiarity of the present machine "is found in the absence from, and lack of necessity in, thewrapping descriptions hereinafter given, that the orange becomes pocketed within, subject to the action of the and in conjunction with theinstrumentalities which i deflect-the marginal portions of the wrapper to -'be V p I closely.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of. parts and devices and the constructions covered in the claims. g In the drawings, Figure l is a plauview of the im- Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a plan .view of the orange wrapping mechanism, the location of which is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and which has its location below the top or apertured table of the machine. Fig. 5'is a perspective view of one of a pair of similar-rotatable bodies comprised in the machine of the preferred con- Specification of, Letters Patent. 1 'Applicationfiled November 1906. Serial No; 844,917-

, of the orange rotating and wrapping device are organfrom the bed, and the somewhat massive standard 12 rising fromthe bed and sustaining the table.

1he'table is made with a circular aperture 13 therethrough, leading tdvfirds and terminating adjacent which is an orange guiding chute 0'. i

-ment in thevertically bored head 16 of a goose neck struction. 6 is a perspective view of-one of a pair of like elements which coact with the rotatable bodies. Figs. 7.- and time views illustrating partially-and fully 1 wrapped conditions of the paper in relation to the orange as performed at'different stages in the operation ing a modification in that the important components ized for rectilinear instead of rotary movements. Fig. l0is a'pe'rspective'yiewshowingtheform of one ofthe duplicated parts employed asa modification of the rotary element illustrated in Fig. 5.

'Similar characters designate similar parts throughout the drawings. v

In the -drawings,-A represents the frame or supportingstructure of the machine, the same comprising a bedorbase portion 10, a table B above and separated The orahge wrapping-mechanism is locatedbelow said aperture 13 and between the table and the bed 10; and the latter hasan opening 14 for the discharge of the wrapped oranges onto the chute 15, which conveys or guides them away from the machine. I D-representsa support for-a paper supply, E and F being feed rolls, G and H representing fixed and movable members of a shear, and J and J 2 represent two, oppositely arranged, pairs of feed belts for engaging slight marginal portions of the "strip forward of the shears and for carrying it finallyto its position on the table abovethe aperture 13, as represented in Fig. 2,' 0; representing the cut off portion of the paper to make a wrapper for the orange.

L represents 'a plunger guided for its vertical movestandard 17, the cam actuated means for periodically vertically reciprocating the plunger] being so constructed and designed that the plunger will be sufliciently lowered for much of the time of each operating period of the machine so as'to constitute astop in'relation to the delivery end of the chute (3, whereby the oranges-are held back, -the forward one being only permitted to fall off from the end of the chute onto the wrapper on the table coincident with the aperture. 13,

and to be restrained by the guard 18, in the short inplunger is in its extreme upat its elbow on the goose neck standard 16 and having I Patented Sept. 34, 1907.

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its yoke formed extremity by the link 23 connected to the stud 24 projectingfrom'the plunger and playing in the vertical slot 25 in the guiding head 16.

The orange wrapping mechanism within and subject to the action'of which the oranges are successively brought comprise elements in combination, the motions of which may be either continuously rotative;

. or reciprocatory, the rotary type thereof being prer .be latterly briefly mentioned. Y

fer red, and the same is illustrated in the first four sheets of the drawings and will be next particularly described, while the modification of the wrapping devices involv ing the sameprinciples but of a reciprocatory type .will

M M represent a pair of oppositely located separated rotatable bodies, each having its lower portion d downwardly and outwardly curved to conform to the contour of the orange and having also an edgewise recess]. These bodies are fixed and carried on the vertical shafts 27, 27, having bearings in'journalhole s therefor in the base 10 and having spur gear wheels 28, 28, thereon through means of which these rotatable bodies: may be turnedconcurrently. Thesaidcircular'rotatablebodies are furthermore constructed with gradually expanding or snail camshaped upper'portions-g, decreasing-in height from their less extended portions 30, Figs. 3 and 5, to'their portions 320i greatest radial extent. The

I expanding or horizontally widened portion g of each rotatable body is downwardly and inwardly curved or concaved to correspond to the contour o f the orange; and the edgewise located surface of-each part g-is roughened by being serrated, as shown, or otherwise.

' Each of the rotatable bodies may advantageously be composed of India rubber in any of its elastic 'compounds, and rendered fast on its shaft or arbor by any suitableattachment means.

35, 35,represent a pair of oppositely located vertical rotatable shafts arranged at either side of a line extended between the pair of shafts 27, 27, the same having-spur gear wheels 36 affixed thereon at the same level as the spur gear wheels 28 on the aforementioned shaft 27; and 37 37 37, 37, represent intermediate spur gear wheels, intermeshing with the gear wheels 28 on the vshafts carrying the rotatable bodies M; and one of the i said intermediate gears has on its short shaft, and as one therewith, a bevel gear wheel 39, with which meshes the bevelgear wheel 40 on a shaft 42 in'driving connection by the bevel gear wheels 43 and 44 with the main shaft K. i

On the upper end of the shafts35; 35, are plates h h,.

revoluble in a plane closely above the upper ends of the rotatable bodies M; and these plates have gradually radially expanding portions; to constitute deflectors for the wrapper and to Coast in conjunction with the rotatable bodies MM for the twisting of the upper free portion of thewfapper to the condition represented in Fig. 8. These revoluble deflectors as shown in the drawings are'made in the form of, and act as, snail cams andwthejmotions of the pairs of parts M, M; and h h, .arefas represented by the arrows on Fig. 4. The edges of the "said parts h h are roughened, as indicated.

7 46, 46, represent a pair of oppositely located orange guards, the same being separated by a distance slightly greater thanthe diameter of the graded'oranges to be Wrapped in the machine and, having their locations generally between the rotatable bodies; but somewhat offset to eithbr side of a line between the axes of such bodies. These guards keep the orange centralized in its pocketed relation to and between the rotatable bodies The orange to be wrapped having come to the location represented :in Fig. 2 is by the properly timed movement of the plunger forced down with the wrapper, in a shape represented in Fig. 7 between the parts N,

receiving support on the lower curved and widening portions (1 thereof; and the rotating bodies M frictionally engaging the orange at opposite sides of the latter, and the wrapper thereabout, rotate these objectson a vertical axis, and the portions 9 inwardly gather the wrapdragging action relatively to the other conducing to the twisting result. At the proper time when the lower edge recesses ff of both bodiesM come opposite each other the. orange may fall downwardly therethrough. it being designed that the recesses ff shall constitute a sufficiently large and free opening as to permit'of an immediate and unobstructed orange discharge.

The means for forwardly feeding paper from the supply roll-onto the table over the aperture in the latter, and the means for cutting off a leading portion of the paper to constitute a wrapper will be now more particularly described. 1 K i .The upper feed roll E is journaled in bearing blocks -50 fitted for vertical movements in ways 52 therefor in the standards 53, which are practically portions of the machine frame. Spiral springs '54 located between the standard caps 55 and the tops of the journal blocks 50 operate to hold the blocks in their downward positions and the upper roll E in contact against the lower feed roll F. Each journal bearing bloclr 50 has an upwardly extended .post or stem 56 playing through an aperture in the standard cap 55, and carrying a right angularly extending arm 57 supporting a vertical bar 58. The opposite pair of these bars with the ,horiv.ontal transverse bar 59 constitute asupporting frame for the movable shear blade H; and this frame is suitably guided by having the vertical frame bars 58 fitted through ways therefor in extensions (30 of the standard 53.

The lower feed roll F has cams 0 at opposite end portions thereof'outside of the edge lines of the paper so that at e\ ery rotation of the lower feed roll the upper rollwill be elevated by the cam, consequently raising the movable shear blade H and severing the paper; and in the short interval of paper severing. the forward progression of the paper is discontinued.

The feed rolls E and F have intermeshing spur gear wheels 62 and 63 made with comparatively long teeth, 'and'with the gear wheels 63 meshes a spur gear wheel 640R ashort hub or stud shaft; and unitary with the said spur gear 64 is a bevel gear wheel (35 in' mesh with which tween the wrapper and plates h, whereby the one has a driven, as easily seen in Hg. 1, from the driving shaft In Figsri) and 10 a modification of the mechanism is I indicated in which the oppositely located bodies M -M are constructed as linear developments of 'the rotatable bodiesabove referred to, and illustrated. in'the preceding 'views,-these bodies M M being arranged for straight reciprocating movements inopposite directions by having the. rack bars 76, 76,engaged by a pinion 77, to which suitable motions are to be imparted;

Each body M? has a downwardly and outwardly widened curved-lower portion d and an upper expanding portion g the'height of which is decreased from its end portion to its portion 32 of greatest transverse hori- .zontal extent. The orange coming down between these I bodieswillbe rotated underthe movements in opposite directions of said bodies and the. upper tree portions of the "wrapper, will'be deflected by .the partsg in pre- -cisely, the same' 'manner as performed in the previously described rotary wrapping mechanism TIhepIate-Ls'h instead. of being rotatableas in the previous described mechanism are pivotally mounted for swinging movements to approach and recede from each other for thetwisting efiect on the wrap per, The approaching move- 'ments of the plates h are imparted by the impinge A ,ment oi thec'ams or inclines 75 on the outer upper pora 3 5 tions of the straightinoving bodies M against the roller provided armsof the swinging plates, and bytheretracting springs k The organizationof the wrapping mechanism of the Q 1 rotary type is preferred possibilities: 1

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1. In a machine foiwwrapping spherical objects, a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies and meansfor imparting movements thereto. in oppositedirections, such movable bodies having downwardly and. outwardly inclined, Iapproached,- lower object supporting portions.

2. Ina machine for wrappinglspherlcal objects, a pair of oppositely, located, separated, bodies;and means for imparting movements thereto in opposite directions, such movable bodieshaving downwardly and inWardIy inclined, approached,'lower, body supporting. portions, and adapted to receive therebetween and turn the spherical body and --the wrapper therefor, and means for. inwardly deflecting, to-secur e thetwisting thereof, the upper portion of thewrapper. I I

3. In a machine for wrapping spherical objects, a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies and means-for imparting movements thereto in opposite directions, such I movable bodies having-downwardly and inwardly inclined til approached lbwer object supporting portions, and having, .upper portions gradually horizontally widened, to be more closely approached under themovements of such bodies,

. and operable to inwardly deflect a wrapper relatively to an upper-portion of'the spherical object to .be wrapped.

.4. In a machine for wrapping spherical objects, a pair of oppositely located, separated bodies, and means for imparting movements thereto in opposite directions, such movable bodies having downwardly and outwardly inclined, approached, lower, body supporting portions, and having upper members gradually horizontally widened, the

.roughened. I v I 7. In a machine of the character. desc'ribed,.- a pair because of the greater speed surfaces of which are of, gradually decreasing height from theirportionsof less .to their portions of greater hori zontal extent. I

' 5. In a machine for wrapping spherical objects, a pair (if-oppositely located, separated bodies, and means for imparting movements thereto inopposite directions; such I movable bodies having the surface portions thereof .com posed of yielding material, and having downwardly and. outwardly inclined approached lower object supporting portions.

6. in a.machine foiwrapping spherical objects, apair'. of oppositely located, separated bodies, and;means -for. imparting movementsthei'eto in'oppositeldirections, such".

movable bodies having downwardly and outwardly inclined approached, lower,' body supporting portions, and

having upperoportions gradually. horlzontally-Awidened,

the facingsurfaces I of such widened iportions being of opp y. l c d; s par ted, bodies, and .me'ans 5m impartingmovements-thereto in opposite directions, means for supporting a spherical object to be wrapped between,

and to be rotated by, said opposltelymovable bodies, and such movable bodies-having gradually widening upper 'portions, and movable wrapper deflectors, the llnes f'ofapproiich thereof being angular to the lines'of approachof -the widened portions'of saidmovable bodies, and means I for operating said deflectors. I

-8.-.In a machine of the character described, a; pair of oppositely located and separated bodies, and means for imparting movements thereto in opposite directions, such bodies havingdownwardly and outwardly inclined and approached lower supporting portions for the spherical body to be wrapped, and guards for .the' object'suitably separated and located tween said bodies. I v I,

9. In a machine for wrapping spherical objects, in combinatio n,.a table, having'an' aperture therethrough, for the support of a wrapper sheet'thereon, a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies having downwardly andoutwardly inclined, approached, lower portions, said bodiesbeing located below and adjacent the said opening, means for imparting movements to said bodies in opposite directions, and means for forcing. the spherical object to be wrapped, with the wrapper therefor, 'through said opening to a position between-, apd so that the object and at opposite sides -of the space be wrapper will be supported and rotated, by,-;said oppositely movable bodies.

10. In a machine for wrapping. sphericalobject s, in combination, a table, having-an aperture therefthrougnior the support of a wrapper sheetfthereon, a pair 9f oppositely located and separated bodiesha'ving downwardly and outwardly inclined, approached, ,lower portions 16- cated below and adjacent thesaid opening, means for 'i mparting-movements to said-bodies, in opposite directions, means for feeding Wrapper sheets""on to the table oversaid opening, andmeans for forcing the spherical object to be wrapped,'with' the wrapper therefor, through said opening to a position between-andso that the 'objectand wrapper will be -rotated, by,- -said oppositely movable bodies; I I

11. in amachiney wrapping spherical objects, in combi-natiom-a table havi g an aperture therthrough, for the support of a wrapper sheet thereon, apalr of'oppositely located and separated bodieshavingL'downwardly and outwardly inclined, I approached,."lower;' portions located below and adjacent the said opening, means for imparting movements to said bodies inoppositedirections, means for feeding spherical objects to be wrapped to position on said table at the location of'and upon the wrapper, above said aperture, and means for forcing the spherical object to be wrapped, with the wrapper therefor, through said opening to a position between,''and so that such object and wrapper will be supported and rotated, by,-said oppositely movable bodies. 1

12. In a machine forwrapping spherical objects, in coni' bination,'a'table, having an-aperture-therethrough, for the support of the wrapper thereon, a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies having positionsbelow and adjacent .the said opening and provided withgradually portions, and means for rotating saidbodies in opposite di;

binaltio'n, a table, having an aperture thcrethrough, for

the support of the wrapper thereon ,a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies having positions below and adjacentithe said opening and provided with gradually approaching and outwardly widened upper members, the

surfaces of which as to height are gradually decreased from their portions of less to their portions of greater inward extent, means for imparting movements to said bodies in opposite directions, and means for forcing the spherical object to be wrapped with'the sheet through said opening to position between, and-so that such object and sheet will be rotated by, said oppositely movable bodies.

14, An orange wrapping device consisting of a pair of oppositely located separated circular rotatable bodies, each having its lower portion downwardly and outwardly curved, means for rotating said circular bodies, and means for inwardly deflecting the upper 'portion of a wrapper. 15. An orange wrapping device consistingot-a pair'of oppositely located separated circular rotatable bodies, having their lower portions downwardly and'outwardly-curved, andhaving'recesses-to assume concurrently adjacent posl-. tions, and'means for rotating said circularbodies.

16. An orange wrapping. device consisting of a pair' of having its lower portion downwardly and outwardly curved, and having its upper portion formed gradually expanding radially to constitute a revolnble inwardly deilecting wrapper member, and means for rotating said circular bodies. 3

17: An orange wrapping device consisting of a pair of oppositely located separated circular rotatable bodies, each having' its lower portion downwardly -and outwardly curved, and'having its upper portion formed gradually 'expanding radially to constitute'a-revoluble inwardly deflecting wrapper member, such member having a decreasing height from a lcsslto a more radially distended portion thereof, and means for rotating said circular bodies.

18. An o'rangc wrapping device consisting of a pair of oppositely located rotatable arbors'having circular bodies thereon composed of soft rubber, each body having-its lowerportion downwardly and outwardly curved, and formed with an edgewise opening recess'therein, and having an upper gradually widening. portion, and means for rotating said .arbors in opposite directions.

1!). in' an orange wrapping device the combination with a pair of ,oppositely located separated circular rotatable bodies, each having its lower portion downwardly and outwardly curved, and having an edgewise recess, of a pair of elements, revoluble in a plane closely above the tops of said bodles,and having radially'expandl'ng wrapper deflecting rections, and for rotating said deflector elements i 20. In an orange wrapping device thecomblnation with a pair otoppositely located separated circular rotatable bodies, each having its lower portion-downwardly and outwardly curved, and having an edgewise recessfof a pair of elements, revoluble in a plane closely above the tops of said'bodies, and havingradially expanding wrapper deflecting portions, orange positioning guards at opposite sides of the space between said rotatable bodies and transversely offset from a line between the axes of such bodies,

and means for rotating said bodies in opposite directions, and forlrotating said deflector elements.

21. In an orange wrapping mechanism, an oppositely located pair of rotatable shafts and a' second pair of rotastructcd with downwardly and outwardly curvod lower portions having edgewisc recesses and constructed with snail canrshaped upper members decreasing in height from their less to their greater radially extended portions, and said second named shafts having at their upper portions snail cam shaped members revoluble in planes adjacent the tops of said circular' bodies.

22. In an orange wrapping device the combination with a pair of oppositelylomted separated circular rotatable bodies, each having its'loweriportion downwardly and outwardly curved, and having an edgewise recess, of a pair or edeinents, revolubl e in a plane closely abovethe tops of said bodies, and having radially eirpanding wrapper detlecting portions, ,or'an ge positioning guards at opposite sides of the space between said rotatable bodies and trans versely olfset from alin'e between the axes of such bodies,

means for rotating said bodies in opposltc directions, and

for rotating said deflector elements, a table located above said rotatable bodies, having an aperture allned with the space between them, means for feeding wrapper sheets onto said table, means for conveyingnranges' onto the wrapper, and means for-successively forcing the oranges and 'wrappers through said aperture to position between and sub- -ject to the actions of the rotatable bodies and ,rcvoluble I deflectors. oppositely locatedfseparated circular rotatable bodies, each i 23. In a machine for wrapping spherical objects, adjacent separated bodies having widened object supporting lower portlons,- means formoving one on said bodies rel- -atively to the other, and both of said bodies having gradually widening upper portions. 7

24. In a'machine for wrapping spherical objects, in combination, a table,-having an'aperture thcrethrough, for the thetablebpposite the end of the chute, a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies having downwardly and outwardly. inclined, approached, lower portions located below and adjacent .the sald -opening,'mcans for imparting movements to said bodies in opposite directions, and means for forcingthe-orange with the wrapper through said aperture to aposition between, and"'so that the orange and wrapper will be supported and rotated by said ,oppositely' movable bodiesI 5 25. In aumachlne for wrapping spherical objects, in combination, a table, having an aperture therethrough, for the support of a wrapper sheet thereon, means for feeding wrapper sheets on said table,,a chute terminating above the table adjacent said aperture, an orange stop, above the table. opposite the end of the chute, a pair of oppositely located and separated bodies having downwardly and outwardly inclined, approached, lower portions located below and adjacentthe said opening, means for imparting movements to said bodies in opposite directions, and avertlcally. reciprocatory plunger movable in line with said aperture, and adjacent and across the end of the chute operable for forcing an orange with its wrapper to a position be- 

